A Thunderbolt from the sky..A thunderbolt that could make change.A Thunderbolt that will tear apart the black clouds of imperialism and communalism that had covered India.Yes change is inevitable..Change will Come..

Saturday, June 7, 2014

A protest was organized by DYFI-SFI-AIDWA (Democratic Youth
Federation of India-Students’ Federation of India- All India Democratic
Women’s Association), AISF (All India Secular Forum), Communalism
Combat, Minorities Federation, Jan Sanskriti Manch and NAPM (National
Alliance for People’s Movement) at Azad Maidan on June 5, 2014 against
the gruesome killing of the innocent, visibly Muslim 28 year old IT
professional, Shaikh Mohsin Sadiq, by a group of people allegedly
belonging to the radical Hindu outfit called Hindu Rashtra Sena.

The protest witnessed around 70 activists, journalists, academics,
lawyers etc along with a strong media presence. The protestors included a
diverse group of men and women- Hindus, Muslims and a few Sikhs.

Though police permission had been denied, the groups concerned went
ahead with the protest, given that the right to peacefully protest is
constitutionally guaranteed to every citizen.

The idea behind the protest was to see the youth’s murder in the
context of the threat that is increasingly being posed to the secular
spirit of the nation. One cannot help but see the murder of the youth as
a component of the larger hate propaganda of the communal forces in the
country.

Though it initially appeared that the police may arrest the
protestors, no such thing happened and the protest was peacefully
carried out. In that sense then, the protest also became a comment on
the increasingly shrinking space and freedom to protest and the ways in
which the State seems to be curbing the democratic ethos that India
stands for.